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Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 1:36 am**

Earlier in the week I attempted to flash my bios as my new DVD writer was not working but this failed miserably due to me trying to use a crappy windows flashing tool.

Managed to re-flash the Bios using Uniflash and then tried to correctly update the bios using the reccommended Gigabyte flash554.exe tool. This looked to have worked but now when I try to bott the PC the monitor switches itself off staright away and the CD drive just flashes at me. I am not hearing any beeps at all. I have tried to reflash using Uniflash but the floppy is not being read.

I have also tried to reset the CMOS by use of jumpers but this has done nothing.

Have I now killed the motherboard or does anyone have any advise on how I can recover it?

Many thanks, Ian

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 1:40 am**

Sorry to reply so soon to my own post - might be of use if I detail my system:

Gigabyte GA-8STXC Mobo (Award Bios)
Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
256 MB RAM
80GB HD
Windows XP

Ta

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 9:59 am**

Does the board have a soldered BIOS chip?

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:03 am**

I don't think so but I'm no expert on these things.

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:08 am**

Second issue - didn't find any motherboard named GA-8STXC from Gigabyte's website. Could you please recheck the motherboard model number?

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:11 am**

That is the correct motherboard - I believe Gigabyte no longer support it hence no mention of it on their site. The bios upgrade I obtained came from www.fujitsu-siemens.com as it is a Fujitsu PC (Scaleo).

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:14 am**

http://www.fujitsu-siemens.co.uk/rl/ser ... txc_uk.pdf

its an OEM board thats why its not showing on gigabyte's website

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:34 am**

Oh... I assumed that when somebody is talking about Gigabyte boards he means retail Gigabyte boards.
Do SiS chipsets for Intel processors use "standard" flash chips like their chipsets for AMD processors?
If yes, it would be possile to try to activate the boot block BIOS by generating a BIOS checksum error.

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 12:14 pm**

As the floppy drive is not being recognised or responding is there anything I can do to fix the bios other than buy a new motherboard?

I'm reluctant to try removing the chip and reflashing it in another machine as my track record is pretty dire in flashing bios.

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 1:46 pm**

well if you dont feel worthy enough to fiddle with the BIOS chip you can try and see if a local computer shop will fix it, or buy a new board.

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